J.A.P.

The Prestwich Manufacturing Company, founded by the engineer John Alfred Prestwich (hence J.A.P), produced internal combustion engines and other examples of precision engineering.

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These were used in many famous motorcycle marques and other devices powered by small engines eg cultivators, chainsaws. The motorcycle engines were associated with racing success and JAP engines were still used in speedway bikes well into the 1960s.

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John Alfred Prestwich (1874-1952) was an engineer, famous as much for his creation of cinematography projectors as his engines. He worked with S.Z. de Ferranti and later the cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene. He founded the company in 1895.

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Cinema

Cinematographic equipment including cameras, printers, mutoscopes, cutting and perforating machines, and projectors (eg the Bioscope projectors for the Warwick Trading Company and Charles Urban were produced by the company in the early part of the twentieth century.

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Motorcycles

From 1904 to 1908 complete motorcycles were produced. After that the factory concentrated on supplying its proprietory engines to other manufacturers. The company became J.A. Prestwich Industries Ltd. After 1945 production was taken over by Villiers and JAP was completely absorbed by the Villiers Engineering Company in 1964.

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Motorcycle: A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. The wheels are in-line, and at higher speed the motorcycle remains upright and stable by virtue of gyroscopic forces; at lower speeds continual readjustment of the steering by the rider gives stability. The rider sits the ve...

Marque: :For a letter of marque, authorising a privateer, see that article....

Speedway: Speedway has multiple meanings:...

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